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The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk
by Dorothy Parker

I was seventy-seven, come August ( Read more... )

When I am old, and comforted ( Read more... )

To Flush, My Dog

by Elizabeth Barrett BrowningLOVING friend, the gift of one ( Read more... )

Some very interesting facts...

One of my favourite quotes (it's the first line of one of her stories): "Seen from a far end of a dimly lit room, Mrs. Ewing was a pretty woman."

:P

http://mentalfloss.com/article/25538/10-things-you-might-not-know-about-dorothy-parker

Roundel ( Read more... )

Verse For a Certain Dog

Such glorious faith as fills your limpid eyes,
Dear little friend of mine, I never knew.
All-innocent are you, and yet all-wise.
(For Heaven's sake, stop worrying that shoe!)
You look about, and all you see is fair;
This mighty globe was made for you alone.
Of all the thunderous ages, you're the heir.
(Get off the pillow with that ( Read more... )

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P.S. Doesn't this remind you of smth? It does me...this:

"Oh, I would like to ride the seas,
A roaring buccaneer,
A cutlass swinging at my neck,
A dirk behind my ear..." ;)

Ninon De Lenclos, On Her Last Birthday

So let me have the rouge again,
And comb my hair the curly way.
The poor young men, the dear young men
They'll all be here by noon today.

And I shall wear the blue, I think-
They beg to touch its rippled lace;
Or do they love me best in pink,
So sweetly flattering the face?

And are you sure my eyes ( Read more... )

Some snippets from "The Late Mrs. Dorothy Parker" by Leslie Frewin:

"Happiness is rarely the lot of the searching, contemplative mind and clearly Dorothy Rothschild had precisely that kind of mind, the kind that had a passion for books."

"Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini."

"It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no ( Read more... )